India strongly condemned Pakistan’s recent airstrikes on Afghanistan during a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting, highlighting that the attacks resulted in the deaths of women, children, and even local cricketers.

India also supported concerns raised by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and urged the global community to adopt a “pragmatic engagement” strategy with the Taliban to encourage positive behaviour.

India’s permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish, stressed that punitive-only approaches have failed to produce meaningful change over the past four and a half years.

“India calls for a pragmatic engagement with the Taliban. A coherent policy should incentivise positive actions. Focusing only on punitive measures will

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